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Ben Clift publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ben Clift sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 122 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Ben Clift D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ben Clift sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index: 76 scientists 21 D-Index: 79 scientists 22 D-Index: 84 scientists 23 D-Index: 68 scientists 24 D-Index: 88 scientists 25 D-Index: 82 scientists 26 D-Index: 76 scientists 27 D-Index: 75 scientists 28 D-Index: 99 scientists 29 D-Index: 96 scientists 30 D-Index: 96 scientists 31 D-Index: 81 scientists 32 D-Index: 86 scientists 33 D-Index: 81 scientists 34 D-Index: 84 scientists 35 D-Index: 72 scientists 36 D-Index: 58 scientists 37 D-Index: 53 scientists 38 D-Index: 48 scientists 39 D-Index: 40 scientists 40 D-Index: 40 scientists 41 D-Index: 32 scientists 42 D-Index: 26 scientists 43 D-Index: 25 scientists 44 D-Index: 33 scientists 45 D-Index: 33 scientists 46 D-Index: 17 scientists 47 D-Index: 21 scientists 48 D-Index: 22 scientists 49 D-Index: 18 scientists 50 D-Index: 19 scientists 51 D-Index: 19 scientists 52 D-Index: 15 scientists 53 D-Index: 14 scientists 54 D-Index: 10 scientists 55 D-Index: 13 scientists 56 D-Index: 9 scientists 57 D-Index: 11 scientists 58 D-Index: 12 scientists 59 D-Index: 10 scientists 60 D-Index: 5 scientists 61 D-Index: 7 scientists 62+ D-Index: 100 scientists
20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 26 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ben Clift is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Within these fields, Clift's work focuses notably on Political Science and International Relations, Finance, Development, Economics and Econometrics, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas including:

  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Political and Economic History of UK and US
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • International Development and Aid
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Global Financial Crisis and Policies
  • European Union Policy and Governance

Ben Clift has contributed to several academic journals, with frequent publications in:

  • British Politics
  • New Political Economy
  • Globalizations
  • Review of International Political Economy
  • Climate Policy

Notable recent papers include:

  • "The IMF, tackling inequality, and post-neoliberal 'reglobalization': the paradoxes of political legitimation within economistic parameters" (2020), published in Globalizations
  • "Technocratic economic governance and the politics of UK fiscal rules" (2022), published in British Politics
  • "Remembering and forgetting IPE: disciplinary history as boundary work" (2020), published in Review of International Political Economy
  • "The social construction of sustainable futures: how models and scenarios limit climate mitigation possibilities" (2024), published in New Political Economy
  • "The politics of the British model of capitalism's flatlining productivity and anaemic growth: Lessons for the growth models perspective" (2021), published in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

Collaborations feature several co-authors, most frequently with Ben Rosamond, alongside Te-Anne Robles, Peter Marcus Kristensen, Caroline Kuzemko, and Sean McDaniel.

Ben Clift has also authored a book published by Edward Elgar Publishing titled "Economic patriotism: the transformation of economic governance in 21st century capitalism" (2022).

Best Publications

  • Economic patriotism : reinventing control over open markets

    Ben Clift;Cornelia Woll

  • The IMF and the Politics of Austerity in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis

    Ben Clift

  • Comparative Political Economy: States, Markets and Global Capitalism

    Ben Clift

  • Leading the Dance? Power and Political Resources of Business Lobbyists

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  • Credible Keynesianism? New Labour Macroeconomic Policy and the Political Economy of Coarse Tuning

    Ben Clift;Jim Tomlinson

  • Comparative Party Finance Reform: The Cases of France and Britain

    Ben Clift;Justin Fisher

  • Comparative capitalisms, ideational political economy and French post-dirigiste responses to the global financial crisis

    Ben Clift

  • When rules started to rule: the IMF, neo-liberal economic ideas and economic policy change in Britain

    Ben Clift;Jim Tomlinson

  • French Corporate Governance in the New Global Economy: Mechanisms of Change and Hybridisation within Models of Capitalism

    Ben Clift

  • The Second Time as Farce? The EU Takeover Directive, the Clash of Capitalisms and the Hamstrung Harmonization of European (and French) Corporate Governance*

    Ben Clift

  • Joined at the hip, but pulling apart? Franco-German relations, the Eurozone crisis and the politics of austerity

    Ben Clift;Magnus Ryner

  • Comparative Political Economy

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  • Contingent Keynesianism: the IMF’s model answer to the post-crash fiscal policy efficacy question in advanced economies

    Ben Clift

  • The hollowing out of monetarism: the rise of rules-based monetary policy-making in the UK and USA and problems with the paradigm change framework

    Ben Clift

  • Capitalist Convergence? European (dis?)Integration and the Post-crash Restructuring of French and European Capitalisms

    Ben Clift;Sean McDaniel

  • Le Changement? French Socialism, the 2012 Presidential Election and the Politics of Economic Credibility amidst the Eurozone Crisis

    Ben Clift

  • Whatever happened to the balance of payments 'problem'? : the contingent (re)construction of British economic performance assessment

    Ben Clift;Jim Tomlinson

  • The IMF, tackling inequality, and post-neoliberal ‘reglobalization’ : the paradoxes of political legitimation within economistic parameters

    Ben Clift;Te-Anne Robles

  • Fiscal policy and capital mobility: the construction of economic policy rectitude in Britain and France

    Ben Clift;Jim Tomlinson

  • Economic Patriotism, the Clash of Capitalisms, and State Aid in the European Union

    Ben Clift

  • The Revival of Economic Patriotism

    Ben Clift;Cornelia Woll

  • Remembering and forgetting IPE: disciplinary history as boundary work

    Ben Clift;Peter Marcus Kristensen;Ben Rosamond

  • The new political economy of Dirigisme: French macroeconomic policy, unrepentant sinning and the stability and growth pact

    Ben Clift

  • Negotiating Credibility: Britain and the International Monetary Fund, 1956–1976

    Ben Clift;Jim Tomlinson

  • French Socialism in a Global Era: The Political Economy of the New Social Democracy in France

    Ben Clift

  • Where are national capitalisms now

    Ben Clift;Jonathan Perraton

  • French responses to the global economic crisis : the political economy of post-dirigisme and new state activism

    Ben Clift

Frequent Co-Authors

Ben Rosamond
Ben Rosamond University of Edinburgh
Justin Fisher
Justin Fisher Brunel University London
Magnus Ryner
Magnus Ryner King's College London

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